Open Congress : News Articles for H.R.676 United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act

Pearl Korn: Dems, Progressive Activist Organizations and Unions?

2010-04-18T20:00:00Z

...for those coming taxes on "Cadillac" plans to be held off until 2018. This union, with over 11 million members, supports H.R. 676 and could have been a force for change once again, lifting all boats as it did in the late 40's when it helped to create th

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Letters to the editor

2009-10-28T20:00:00Z

...be called "a friendly takeover of government, a leveraged buyout of democracy." We need U.S. representatives to support H.R. 676, not merely a public option. Without universal coverage to offer to manufacturers, we may lose them to countries that have i

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Grijalva: Medical Security Is the Name of the Game

2009-09-16T20:00:00Z

Although Congress does not appear to have the stomach to pass HR 676, there's every reason to believe that we can secure Medicare for All, once states begin ...

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Medicare for allâ€”

2009-09-16T20:00:00Z

There is a bill, HR 676, which would do just that. What's more, since our dysfunctional for-profit system costs us about 2.5 times the average of what ...

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Panelists at local Democrats' meeting discuss campaign finance ...

2009-09-16T20:00:00Z

More than 400 local unions have issued support for HR 676, she said, and the 500-plus labor councils throughout the country are talking with legislators who ...

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2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

The move against the Senate Finance Committee plan began just minutes after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution in support of HR 676, the Medicare for all bill ...

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2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

The United States National Health Care Act, or HR 676, is a bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Aug. 24 and is expected to create a heated ...

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2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

The move against the Senate Finance Committee plan began just minutes after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution in support of HR 676, the Medicare for all bill ...

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Americans Deserve the Option for Better Care

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

The United States National Health Care Act, or HR 676, is a bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Aug. 24 and is expected to create a heated ...

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2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

Time to pass HR 676 for single-payer UHC for all, and help middle class Americans to finally have affordable health care. by stn_sage September 16, ...

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Healthcare, Afghanistan on Tap for PDA Western Regional Meeting

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

Lighty will speak on the joint efforts of PDA and CNA to support and advance HR 676 (Conyers), the Medicare for All bill now in Congress. ...

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Kent Conrad and the 'Annie Hall' Theory of Health-Care Reform

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

Or how about scoring the cost of HR 676 over 20 years? I think this is probably just to illustrate how dishonest it is to start the taxes before the ...

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Officials stress need for health care reform

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

More than 400 local unions have issued support for HR 676, she said, and the 500-plus labor councils throughout the country are talking with legislators who ...

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Letter: Single-payer is Pacific Green Party of Oregon's preference ...

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' HR 676. This is the solution to what is frankly admitted in many quarters to be our "broken healthcare system," the solution that the ...

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Health care debate & the racist connection

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

It has been proposed in Congress as HR 676. Medicare for All represents an immediate demand that would fix some of the most glaring problems in health care, ...

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Senate health bill protested at labor convention

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

The move against the Senate Finance Committee plan began just minutes after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution in support of HR 676, the Medicare for all bill ...

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BuzzFlash Mailbag for September 16, 2009

2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

These same scolds, almost to a person, demur that while they too support HR 676 or some close variation thereof, the votes for passage are not there, ...

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2009-09-15T20:00:00Z

The United States National Health Care Act, or HR 676, is a bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Aug. 24 and is expected to create a heated ...

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2009-09-14T20:00:00Z

She said that although labor supports the president's plan which calls for a strong public option, the long term goal is to win passage of HR 676. ...

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2009-09-14T20:00:00Z

The rally was in support of HR 676, the Improved and Expanded Medicare for All bill introduced by US Rep. John Conyers. Union members claimed the city could ...

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Labor movement 'fired up' in Pittsburgh

2009-09-14T20:00:00Z

She said that although labor supports the president's plan which calls for a strong public option, the long term goal is to win passage of HR 676. ...

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2009-09-14T20:00:00Z

She reminds everyone that the Weinder Amendment presents an opportunity for our representatives to vote for HR 676, a Medicare-for-All reform model after ...

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2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

No surprise then that Evan Bayh has followed his wife's lead by declaring opposition to single-payer (HR 676) and describing himself as "agnostic" on the ...

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2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

No surprise then that Evan Bayh has followed his wife's lead by declaring opposition to single-payer (HR 676) and describing himself as "agnostic" on the ...

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2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

She supports HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act, as well as California's SB 810. Both bills call for a â€œsingle payerâ€* government ...

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Bay City Commission approves part-time hiring of Michael Regulski ...

2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

However, several commissioners said the fact that the resolution named the federal bill HR 676 which deals with the reform, they didn't feel comfortable ...

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Bronx health care town hall a charade

2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

No surprise then that Crowley has avoided the single-payer bill in the US House of Representatives (HR 676) and has provided only tepid support for the ...

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2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

No surprise then that Evan Bayh has followed his wife's lead by declaring opposition to single-payer (HR 676) and describing himself as "agnostic" on the ...

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A clean sweep

2009-09-13T20:00:00Z

HR 676 represents the key to jobs jobs jobs and new economic growth to the nation. It will make the USA far more attractive to new industry and hopefully ...

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'Medicare for all' adds real health reform

2009-09-12T20:00:00Z

I write in support of the real health-care reform bill, HR 676, "Medicare for All." Any division into public and private options will, by definition, ...

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2009-09-10T20:00:00Z

John Conyers (and his dozens of cosigners), whose bill, HR 676, to expand Medicare to all has been barred from getting even a hearing by the House ...

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Less Fuss, More Ideas

2009-09-09T20:00:00Z

Goodlatte also noted another bill in Congress, HR 676, introduced by John Conyers Jr., of Detroit, in which the â€œsingle-payer systemâ€* â€” a government owned ...

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Baucus ignores bill, listens to liar

2009-09-08T20:00:00Z

Finally, I would like to ask you about HR 676. It is a single-payer bill. It is two pages long. I have read it. Have you? Early in this process you refused ...

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2009-09-08T20:00:00Z

Finally, I would like to ask you about HR 676. It is a single-payer bill. It is two pages long. I have read it. Have you? Early in this process you refused ...

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Peninsula readers letters: Sept. 9

2009-09-07T20:00:00Z

I encourage you to investigate HR 676 (www.hr676.org), which makes it possible for states to pursue a single-payer option through extension of Medicare. ...

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Brick officials have heads in the sand

2009-09-07T20:00:00Z

J., will not support John Conyer's health care bill, HR 676, so he won't (either). Wow, is that a man who thinks for himself? Is that the kind of critical ...

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Young widow calls for safer work place

2009-09-07T20:00:00Z

The organization supports HR 676, which would essentially expand Medicare to cover all Americans through closing loopholes and hiking taxes. ...

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Rep. Sutton Commits on Pub Option

2009-09-06T20:00:00Z

Then I asked why she had sponsored HR 676 for national single-payer in the last congress but not in this congress. She claimed that she could do more in ...

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The Green Party appeals to Labor: Democrats have failed working ...

2009-09-06T20:00:00Z

We're firmly behind single-payer national health care (HR 676), which would relieve business of the economic burden of providing health care benefits, ...

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Pennsylvania Legislature has 2 bills on health plan

2009-09-06T20:00:00Z

... Legislators for Single Payer Health Care, a group of 119 state-level legislators from 35 states who support a single-payer bill (HR 676) in Congress. ...

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2009-09-05T20:00:00Z

The single-payer bills in Congress are HR 676 and S 703. HR 676 has 86 co-sponsors and has been endorsed by over 500 labor bodies, including 39 state ...

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2009-09-05T20:00:00Z

The single-payer bills in Congress are HR 676 and S 703. HR 676 has 86 co-sponsors and has been endorsed by over 500 labor bodies, including 39 state ...

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Everybody in, nobody out

2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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Staying true to my word

2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

I also reinforced my support for HR 676, a bill which I have been on the record supporting for more than five years but which is not on the table for a vote ...

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2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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Single-payer plan has my support

2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

... that many respected local physicians are among the thousands of others advocating for the passage of HR 676, the bill in support of single-payer. ...

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Besides being a crook, Jack Murtha is an idiot

2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

( Tribune Democrat article) Yet, Congressman Murtha cosponsored his own healthcare bill, HR 676, which would create a government run single payer healthcare ...

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2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are sponsoring HR 676, the single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance bill in the house, along with 85 ...

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Single-payer bill would cut costs

2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

However, there is very little coverage in the mainstream media about HR 676, the single-payer bill. It would be a marvelous bill to counter the fears of HR ...

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Letters to the Editor

2009-09-03T20:00:00Z

...care movement" has been able to accomplish can most kindly be labeled "insurance industry and profit care." Please put H.R.676 and the profound improvements its passage will influence before the American public -- and begin to use the sound bites you ar

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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A Progressive Dream, Obama's poker game on Healthcare

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

The leader said, it is called Medicare for All who want it and it is modeled after HR 676. And the people said PASS IT! And it became the law of the land, ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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Guest opinion: When is reform not reform?

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

Weiner Amendment, HR 676, and Senate Bill 703: These are single-payer proposals. "Single-payer" means that a single non-profit agency is responsible for ...

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House health bill would save real money

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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Enzi On Health Reform: "I'm Pretty Sure It's Going To Fail"

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

We must BACK PELOSI, WEINER, and KUCINICH to the END! HR 676 Medicare for All WHO WANT IT and an OPT OUT Clause for those that don't!

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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The US and Canada: Different Forms of Medical Rationing

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

Hundreds of American labor organizations have endorsed HR 676 â€” The United States National Health Insurance Act to establish a national insurance system. ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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Letters At Issue: Healthcare: 09/03/2009

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

A simple, single-payer system, such as that called for in HR 676, would lead to major cost reductions, full coverage, and longer, more productive lives for ...

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Buzz Davis: Obama needs to take the giant step to single-payer

2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

Under HR 676, private insurance would be terminated. Estimated annual savings would be $400 billion due to eliminating private administrative and profit ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

HR 676, "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All," is a single-payer plan, the only legislation that would eliminate private insurance premiums. ...

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2009-09-02T20:00:00Z

Weiner Amendment, HR 676, and Senate Bill 703: These are single-payer proposals. "Single-payer" means that a single non-profit agency is responsible for ...

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Letter: Medicare needed for all

2009-09-01T20:00:00Z

So what we really need is HR 676 (14 pages long) vs. HR 3200 (or some conferenced, closed-door variation), which is more than 1000 convoluted, loopholed, ...

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How Monolithic is Your Health Care System?

2009-09-01T20:00:00Z

First, an older House bill, HR 676, proposes a true single-payer plan like Canada's â€” essentially a big expansion of US Medicare. It won't pass. ...

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What should a strong public option actually do?

2009-09-01T20:00:00Z

HR 676 is a good model. 3. Provide improved Medicare free to all seniors, children, and the disabled. 4. Require all employers to offer improved Medicare as ...

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EDITORIAL: Health care debate full of misinformation

2009-08-31T20:00:00Z

While this has been proposed in HR 676 many times by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), it hasn't gotten any traction because of the money flowing into Congress ...

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The Impossible is Now Possible: Assessing the Obama Presidency

2009-08-31T20:00:00Z

... a public option included with a mix of private plans, but that can open the door for the passage of an HR 676 single-payer-type bill at a later point. ...

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Mike Huckabee's Plan to Socialize and Bankrupt the United States ...

2009-08-31T20:00:00Z

And wouldn't (HR 676) who many around here worship do the same thing? If we gave Medicare to everyone for example its costs would explode (its fraud would ...

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Single-payer must be option

2009-08-31T20:00:00Z

In the meantime, we can all support HR 676. Make phone calls to Rep. Denny Rehberg, write letters and sign petitions. There's very little chance that we can ...

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More health care reform clarity

2009-08-31T20:00:00Z

(I'm being unfair. The bill is dense.) For those folks who want a simple bill and a simple plan, I recommend John Conyers' HR 676.

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A lesson on vote counting

2009-08-31T20:00:00Z

single-payer bill (HR 676) in the last Congress but not in this Congress, four have indicated they will vote no on a single-payer bill to be offered by Rep. ...

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Rep. Wittman town hall on health care draws crowd

2009-08-30T20:00:00Z

Mike Rosenberg's cardboard sign said "Support Single Payer" and listed HR 676. The single-payer system idea is being crowded out by the public option â€” or ...

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This morning's protest: Outside Kit Bond's health-care 'town-hall ...

2009-08-30T20:00:00Z

She's a proponent of a single-payer system, like the plan spelled out in HR 676. Needless to say, that idea has been shunned by conservatives, ...

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Activists Target Feinstein's LA Office for Health Care Reform

2009-08-30T20:00:00Z

Meanwhile, on the issue of single payer reform, a number of Democrats who originally co-sponsored Representative John Conyer's Bill, HR 676, had pledged not ...

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Dems backtrack on single-payer bill

2009-08-30T20:00:00Z

single-payer bill (HR 676) in the last Congress but not in this Congress, four have indicated they will vote no on a single-payer bill to be offered by Rep. ...

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2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

With the kind of money and influence the lobbyists have in Congress, HR 676 (a single-payer plan) has disappeared, and current proposals will continue the ...

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2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

With the kind of money and influence the lobbyists have in Congress, HR 676 (a single-payer plan) has disappeared, and current proposals will continue the ...

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Making Sense of the Health Care Reform Debate

2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

With the kind of money and influence the lobbyists have in Congress, HR 676 (a single-payer plan) has disappeared, and current proposals will continue the ...

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2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

With the kind of money and influence the lobbyists have in Congress, HR 676 (a single-payer plan) has disappeared, and current proposals will continue the ...

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2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

With the kind of money and influence the lobbyists have in Congress, HR 676 (a single-payer plan) has disappeared, and current proposals will continue the ...

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2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

With the kind of money and influence the lobbyists have in Congress, HR 676 (a single-payer plan) has disappeared, and current proposals will continue the ...

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Support single-payer health care

2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

Let your legislators know that you want them to vote for single-payer legislation -- HR 676 in the House and S. 703 in the Senate. ...

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Dems backtrack on single-payer bill

2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

single-payer bill (HR 676) in the last Congress but not in this Congress, four have indicated they will vote no on a single-payer bill to be offered by Rep. ...

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Massa's final town hall meeting set for Mon.

2009-08-29T20:00:00Z

Massa said he also tells those who attend town hall meetings he favors a single-payer system, like the program outlined in HR 676, which Massa co-sponsored. ...

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2009-08-28T20:00:00Z

Thats why there are 40-plus million uninsured people in our country. Please consider HR 676 as the only solution to true health care reform.

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2009-08-28T20:00:00Z

Health care is too important for it to be a for-profit industry. We need health care for everyone and we need it now, with a single-payer plan (HR 676).

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2009-08-27T20:00:00Z

Instead, she and Crouse strongly advocated for a national single-payer plan to provide universal health coverage to all Americans under HR 676, ...

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Health care vote will reflect research, input

2009-08-26T20:00:00Z

I also reinforced my support for HR 676, a bill which I have been on the record supporting for more than five years, but is not on the table for a vote. ...

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The wrong kind of single payer.

2009-08-26T20:00:00Z

As for cost the HR 676 people claim â€œWe all know that nothing of any real value is ever free, but if you think of the taxes that will be required to support ...

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Canadian-style health care is an option

2009-08-26T20:00:00Z

However, the ones which solve them all, quickly and without additional cost, are the ones that emulate the Canadian single-payer system (HR 676, ...

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Health insurance is a mess we need to fix

2009-08-26T20:00:00Z

I would suggestsaying enough to proveknowledge of the single-payer bill itself. HR 676 is much shorter and to the point than the other proposals we have ...

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700 cheer 'Mad as Hell Doctors'

2009-08-25T20:00:00Z

... with a scathing critique of the current profit-driven health care system and called for passage of HR 676, the â€œMedicare for allâ€* bill sponsored by Rep. ...

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Our View: Express health care views respectfully at forum

2009-08-25T20:00:00Z

And what about the single-payer bill (HR 676) introduced by Congressman John Conyers, D-Mich. that is likely to get discussion in the House? ...

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Reid on stump in Pahrump

2009-08-25T20:00:00Z

A group favoring House Bill HR 676 staked its claim along Highway 160. HR 676, is the National Health Insurance Act, introduced by Congressman John Conyers ...

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Crowd packs health care town hall meeting

2009-08-25T20:00:00Z

Tell Minnick to support Medicare-for-All by co-sponsoring House Bill HR 676. " " Notice that Minnick has followed the national Democrat instructions to ...

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2009-08-24T20:00:00Z

Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerAttendees hold up signs, one saying 'Meidcare For All HR 676,' and another displaying a curse word at the Piscataway town hall ...

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2009-08-24T20:00:00Z

At issue is HR 676, the so-called "Medicare for All" bill sponsored by US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). The proposed legislation would expand the existing ...

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2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

I understand that if HR 676 were passed, $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would be cut." Kevin Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance, a Troy-based ...

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2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

I understand that if HR 676 were passed, $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would be cut." Kevin Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance, a Troy-based ...

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2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

I understand that if HR 676 were passed, $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would be cut." Kevin Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance, a Troy-based ...

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The Seattle Times Should Review Malkin's Latest Book

2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

the "HR 676 PEOPLE'S PHONE LOBBY". Why do they always have to use communist lingo? Since I never signed up for this group, I strongly suspect that when I ...

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2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

I understand that if HR 676 were passed, $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would be cut." Kevin Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance, a Troy-based ...

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Health-care reform: Is all that is needed just some personal ...

2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

Read HR 676 instead of the endless explanations by Congressman Rick Larsen, Blue Dogs and agenda-driven think tanks that believe a single-payer health ...

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2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

I understand that if HR 676 were passed, $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would be cut." Kevin Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance, a Troy-based ...

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LETTER: Health care shouldn't depend on markets

2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

Let us join the rest of the civilized world and choose people over profits. Call on US Rep. Ron Kind to support HR 676 and Sen. Russ Feingold to support SB ...

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Local professionals weigh in on health care reform

2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

I understand that if HR 676 were passed, $500 billion in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would be cut." Kevin Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance, a Troy-based ...

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Mailbag: The most sensible plan (Aug. 24)

2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

Unlike HR 3200, HR 676 relieves employers of the responsibility for funding medical insurance. Small businesses will be able to hire more workers or pay ...

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Foundation broken beyond repair

2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

Anthony Weiner (New York) has introduced an amendment to President Obama's health care reform bill (HR 200) to replace it with HR 676 - the single-payer ...

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2009-08-23T20:00:00Z

As is the case in Canada, HR 676 would "prohibits a private health insurer from selling health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided ...

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2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

Did you know that under HR 676 all in america could have great coverage under a more fiscally prudent Medicare Insurance for All plan for that same $1.2 ...

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Stop paying

2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

Did you know that under HR 676 all in america could have great coverage under a more fiscally prudent Medicare Insurance for All plan for that same $1.2 ...

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Astroturfing on the Left

2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

AFSCME nationally "endorses" HR 676 (a bill to create single-payer) as do at least 22 AFSCME locals that I know of. I'm willing to bet that AFSCME's ...

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Health-care debate: Poor arguments, democrats failing and co-op ...

2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

... government that money can buy, and we will fail to have a courageous Congress that would adopt such measures as HR 676, the single-payer health-care bill.

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More than 700 attend town hall meeting

2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

Loebsack also is one of the 93 cosponsors of HR 676, The United States National Health Care Act. This act calls for "essentially Medicare for all ...

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Action: Billionaires for Wealthcare in San Mateo

2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

Support Single Payer Health Care! Health Care Reform Now! Go to http://www.peopleofCA12.org or call (650) 342-0300 to tell the Congresswomen, vote for HR 676.

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A. Schneeberg: Single-payer remains the best way to go

2009-08-22T20:00:00Z

The original single-payer health care bill (HR 676) was proposed in 2005 and still has more co-sponsors than any other since then. One problem we are facing ...

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More than 700 attend Loebsack health care forum

2009-08-21T20:00:00Z

Loebsack also is one of the 93 cosponsors of HR 676, The United States National Health Care Act. This act calls for â€œessentially Medicare for all ...

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2009-08-21T20:00:00Z

Your choice is greater with Single Payer legislationâ€”HR 676â€”in the House of Representatives, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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1. We already have single payer (Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, the VA ...

2009-08-20T20:00:00Z

â€œGetting over that hurdle may be why HR 676 has gotten so little publicity, even from alleged friends of older people. There is no mention of it on the Web ...

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BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 21, 2009

2009-08-20T20:00:00Z

Also, did I hear right that the CBO is doing a cost efficiency analysis on HR 676 the results of which are to be promulgated sometime yet this month? ...

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Democrats Stage a Spirited Debate on Health Care Reform

2009-08-20T20:00:00Z

Davis is a co-sponsor of HR 676, a single-payer bill, neither he nor any other local Democratic Party official seems interested in spending the time to ...

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Massa doing the job he was elected to do

2009-08-20T20:00:00Z

In a related matter, Massa said he backs HR 676, which would provide a government-run, single-payer health care option that would, among other things, ...

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2009-08-20T20:00:00Z

HR 676 is the United States National Health Care Act which establishes a universal health insurance program with single payer financing authored by US Rep. ...

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Letter: Reach Out America Goes to Washington

2009-08-20T20:00:00Z

Anthony Weiner has offered an amendment to replace HR 3200, the House Leadership's health reform bill, with HR 676, Rep. John Conyers' single-payer, ...

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2009-08-19T20:00:00Z

This is true if you don't consider HR 676 "under serious discussion". Sadly, that's probably true. by Karl Frisch - August 20, 2009 by Eric Boehlert ...

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2009-08-19T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill HR 676 proposes. While mistrust of the government is an understandable sentiment, it is clear that the hmos and ppos can no longer be ...

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2009-08-19T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill HR 676 proposes. While mistrust of the government is an understandable sentiment, it is clear that the hmos and ppos can no longer be ...

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SANTA BARBARA RALLY DRAWS BOTH SIDES OF ONGOING HEALTHCARE DEBATE

2009-08-19T20:00:00Z

Richard Vaughan of Santa Barbara said he supports the single-payer bill, HR 676, which hasn't gained much traction in Congress. â€œIf we had a single-payer ...

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www.kuncinich.com

2009-08-19T20:00:00Z

She and Sarah Palin are friends. I think our Hawaii Congressional delegation all supports HR 676 (Conyers and Kucinich). If any of you don't please tell us why.

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Why Obama may be a one-term president

2009-08-19T20:00:00Z

Conyers is the sponsor of HR 676, the Enhanced Medicare For All Act, which proposes the expansion of the highly successful Medicare program, ...

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2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

The largest organized segment of forces pushing for universal health care are still grouped around HR 676, the enhanced Medicare For All Act sponsored by ...

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2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

The largest organized segment of forces pushing for universal health care are still grouped around HR 676, the enhanced Medicare For All Act sponsored by ...

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Health Care and the Circular Firing Squad

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

My rep is a co-sponsor of HR 676, but I tell her the same thing. Okay, you chronic worrywarts that won't stop bellyaching about health care reform â€“ prepare ...

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2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

The largest organized segment of forces pushing for universal health care are still grouped around HR 676, the enhanced Medicare For All Act sponsored by ...

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Letters from our readers

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

I can tell you one reason why there is little coverage of the free clinic, at least by single payer (HR 676) advocates like meâ€”sadly, the RAM organization ...

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2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

The largest organized segment of forces pushing for universal health care are still grouped around HR 676, the enhanced Medicare For All Act sponsored by ...

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United States: Healthcare `town hall' meeting a charade of democracy

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

No surprise then that Crowley has avoided the single-payer bill in the US House of Representatives (HR 676) and has provided only tepid support for the ...

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employee speaks out

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

has introduced HR 676 (again!). It would mandate a single-payer health care system that addresses all of those who are lost in our current system. ...

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2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

The largest organized segment the forces pushing for universal health care are still grouped around HR 676, the enhanced Medicare For All Act sponsored by ...

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That Depends on What the Meaning of "Myth" Is

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

(Unless you count, you know, John Conyer's HR 676, which imposes "Medicare for all"-style government health care and has 93 cosponsors. ...

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Engel lauded as health care reform leader

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

He added that he supported a single payer system, which he has been an early co-sponsor of in Congress (HR 676). He knows this is what America needs and ...

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An Unpopular War

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

I particularly appreciated your avoidance of the subject of HR 676 which is John Conyers' Universal Single Payer Health Care proposal, something that would ...

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On our minds: Spending, drinking

2009-08-18T20:00:00Z

This will make it politically feasible for Representatives to make HR 676 the official House bill. I, along with a lot of other non-Democrats tipped the ...

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Block Obama's Abject Surrender to Insurance and Drug Companies

2009-08-17T20:00:00Z

The full Medicare, single payer bill (backed by nearly ninety legislators) is HR 676. The go-to citizen group for your sustained engagement is ...

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Maddow: Public Option Dying Because Of Dems' Political Collapse (VIDEO)

2009-08-17T20:00:00Z

...option" compromise is no longer viable? Good. It was always a sellout. Medicare for all. Demand a CBO scoring of Conyers' H.R.676 - or better yet, let's get some numbers for simply expanding and funding Medicare for all. With the provision, of course, t

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2009-08-17T20:00:00Z

The full Medicare, single payer bill (backed by nearly ninety legislators) is HR 676. The go-to citizen group for your sustained engagement is ...

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Corker: US 'awakened' by town halls

2009-08-16T20:00:00Z

Meanwhile HR 676 has never been scored. And although premiums would be considerably reduced according to economist Dean Baker of the non-profit, ...

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2009-08-16T20:00:00Z

Netroots Nation was swarming with supporters of â€œsingle-payerâ€* health care, pushing for HR 676 by Congressmember John Conyers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...

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AFL-CIO convention may feature showdown over health care

2009-08-15T20:00:00Z

10, four days before the resolutions deadline, single-payer health care coverage advocates had sent 40 draft resolutions backing the bill (HR 676, ...

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A Socialist Attends a Town Hall Health Care Meeting

2009-08-14T20:00:00Z

It turned out that few of the Obamacare advocates I spoke with had even heard of HR 676, but were very interested to learn more. It became apparent that the ...

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Honest debate?

2009-08-14T20:00:00Z

That is a lot of long term cancer treatments. under HR 676 $1.4 million dollars would cover approximately 519 families in the USA each day the money is ...

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Two New Congressional Obstacles To Health Care Reform

2009-08-14T20:00:00Z

... vote afforded to liberals concerning HR 676, which everyone knows will not pass), and cooperatives are being pushed as the compromise policy position. ...

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2009-08-14T20:00:00Z

And I asked him why he withdrew his support for HR 676, the bill to create a universal, single-payer healthcare system. Take a listen. REP. ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

It may be a non-starter in Congress, despite the upcoming vote on Representative John Conyers's HR 676, but one thing you can say for single-payerâ€”it's easy ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

It may be a non-starter in Congress, despite the upcoming vote on Representative John Conyers's HR 676, but one thing you can say for single-payerâ€”it's easy ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

It may be a non-starter in Congress, despite the upcoming vote on Representative John Conyers's HR 676, but one thing you can say for single-payerâ€”it's easy ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

It may be a non-starter in Congress, despite the upcoming vote on Representative John Conyers's HR 676, but one thing you can say for single-payerâ€”it's easy ...

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Health Care Reform: lessons from Sicko

2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

John Conyers, Jr's (D-Michigan) HR 676 that would provide full healthcare coverage for life. Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Maxine Waters ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

It turned out that few of the Obamacare advocates I spoke with had even heard of HR 676, but were very interested to learn more. It became apparent that the ...

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The Nation: Health Care We Can Believe In

2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

It may be a non-starter in Congress, despite the upcoming vote on Representative John Conyers's HR 676, but one thing you can say for single-payerâ€”it's easy ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

This September, the Congress will take up for debate and vote HR 676, the â€œMedicare for Allâ€* bill by John Conyers of Michigan. This bill would reign in the ...

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â€œYou Do Not Cut Deals with the System that Has to Be Replaced ...

2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

And I asked him why he withdrew his support for HR 676, the bill to create a universal, single-payer healthcare system. Take a listen. REP. ...

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Rally Held In Idaho Falls Over Obama's Healthcare Reform

2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

The group, Snake River Freedom Coalition, say they support a bill titled HR 676, the bill advocated a single-payer insurance plan. ...

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2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

And I asked him why he withdrew his support for HR 676, the bill to create a universal, single-payer healthcare system. Take a listen. REP. ...

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This Society Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us!

2009-08-13T20:00:00Z

This September, the Congress will take up for debate and vote HR 676, the â€œMedicare for Allâ€* bill by John Conyers of Michigan. This bill would reign in the ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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A Few More Thoughts About Single-Payer and Medicare

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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What Social Security Teaches Us About Health Care

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

Only really stringent regulation of the type not proposed in any bills (except HR 676 which really says "we can't regulate these guys; we have to push them ...

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Group hits streets for health care reform act

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

The idea is known as the National Health Care Act or HR 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. However, three House committees with jurisdiction on ...

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Rally Held In Idaho Falls Over Obama's Healthcare Reform

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

The group, Snake River Freedom Coalition, say they support a bill titled HR 676, the bill adovocated a single-payer insurance plan. ...

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Healthcare We Can Believe In

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

It may be a non-starter in Congress, despite the upcoming vote on Representative John Conyers's HR 676, but one thing you can say for single-payer--it's ...

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The End of End-of-Life Counseling?

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

Now it is up to the Democrats to excercise their reconciliation and vote for single payer healthcare reform (HR 676). But since Democrats are as much ...

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Group Supports Obama's Health Plan

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

Robin Wilt of the group said she thinks the current bill in Congress, HR-676, is the best solution; but admits the legislation could take years to pass. ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

But one thing is perfectly predictable: The Q&A session will be dominated by single-payer activists asking about HR 676. There's not a mystery as to why ...

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Rally Held In Idaho Falls Over Obama's Healthcare Reform

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

The group, Snake River Coalition, say they support another bill titled HR 676, the single payer insurance plan. Dr. David Adler, a professor at Idaho State ...

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HEALTH CARE: We can and must get this right

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers and others (HR 676, United States National Health Care Act), or something similar, perhaps more regionally administered at the state level, ...

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Health care bills supported inside and outside meeting

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

Behlok was among about three dozen members of Rochester for HR 676, dubbed Medicare for All, who rallied outside the CafÃ© Underground Railroad, ...

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2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

John Conyers' bill, HR 676, would do. The reason Medicare is inadequate is because the Republicans and the conservative Democrats--the very "Blue Dog" ...

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Why HR 676, Medicare For All, is the best option

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

HR 676, Medicare For All, and return to the Hill-Burton Hospital Act standard of before the enacrment of the HMO Law could start to turn us away from the ...

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Health care bills supported inside and outside meeting in Rochester

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

Behlok was among about three dozen members of Rochester for HR 676, dubbed Medicare for All, who rallied outside the CafÃ© Underground Railroad, ...

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LETTER: US needs a national health plan

2009-08-12T20:00:00Z

What happened to the Conyers bill, HR 676? Never mind the excuse that we don't want government in our health care. They already are. ...

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Obama-care not the answer

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Introduced in Congress in January with 31 sponsors, the United States National Health Insurance Act, (HR 676), is a simple 27-page bill to expand and ...

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Help make health care everyone's right

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

HR 676 would provide comprehensive, economical, publicly funded, privately delivered health care for everyone, including automatic coverage, ...

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2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Introduced in Congress in January with 31 sponsors, the United States National Health Insurance Act, (HR 676), is a simple 27-page bill to expand and ...

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2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Introduced in Congress in January with 31 sponsors, the United States National Health Insurance Act, (HR 676), is a simple 27-page bill to expand and ...

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Ellen Bueno: Health care reform bill in need of compromise

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

has sponsored a single-payer bill (HR 676) in the House. It has 84 co-sponsors, including Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.). Another co-sponsor, Rep. ...

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Health care reform advocates to meet with Ellsworth's staff

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Two groups have been collecting signatures in support of HR 676, otherwise known as the National Health Insurance Act. Thus far, they have collected more ...

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Minneapolis Labor Federation endorses 'single payer' health care

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation voted at its July meeting to endorse HR 676, the â€œsingle payerâ€* health care reform legislation ...

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Here's how to fight for a strong public option from Slinkerwink ...

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

... of our elected Democratic representatives, especially those who signed HR 676, and those who are currently on the fence about the public option. ...

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LETTER: Our leaders our here to serve us

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Something needs to be done. Passing HR 676 is the direction this country needs to go if we are to claim to be the greatest country on earth.

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2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Introduced in Congress in January with 31 sponsors, the United States National Health Insurance Act, (HR 676), is a simple 27-page bill to expand and ...

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WEDNESDAY OBSERVER: Don't buy health insurance lies

2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

The only solution available to us which would solve all of these problems is a single payer system, like the one proposed in HR 676. ...

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2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

Introduced in Congress in January with 31 sponsors, the United States National Health Insurance Act, (HR 676), is a simple 27-page bill to expand and ...

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2009-08-11T20:00:00Z

6 letter, "Go with single-payer," gave a brief, clear explanation of a "single-payer" public health care bill, HR-676 (which is expected to come up for ...

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2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

Every effort has been made to bury an excellent bill, HR 676, offered up by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), which would cover every American by simply expanding ...

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2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

Every effort has been made to bury an excellent bill, HR 676, offered up by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), which would cover every American by simply expanding ...

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2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

Every effort has been made to bury an excellent bill, HR 676, offered up by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), which would cover every American by simply expanding ...

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2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

RUSSELL MOKHIBER: Well, there are a group of 85 members of the House who support single-payer bill HR 676. They are all Democrats and unfortunately it's not ...

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Progressives Should be Shutting Down These So-Called 'Town ...

2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

Every effort has been made to bury an excellent bill, HR 676, offered up by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), which would cover every American by simply expanding ...

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Hodes is wrong on health care tax

2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

We need single-payer health care offered in HR 676, not protection of the wealthiest against small tax increases. Single payer would cover everyone and give ...

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What's up with health care?

2009-08-10T20:00:00Z

She posted on Editorial: Lots of people are really upset: Members of Congress would have the same health care coverage that you and I would have if HR 676 ...

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Change the debate on health care

2009-08-09T20:00:00Z

... Turner while he is home during the August recess so he might have a change of heart and support HR 676 Medicare for All when he returns to Washington. ...

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First-hand accounts of the Tampa town hall meeting

2009-08-09T20:00:00Z

If the Rabid Right Want to Shout Down Discussions, Congress Should Reconvene and Pass HR 676 Today. That Will End the Discussion for Good. ...

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Urge Salazar to back single-payer plan

2009-08-09T20:00:00Z

Salazar to co-sponsor and work for the single-payer health-care option in HR 676. The legislation creates a national health-insurance program that covers ...

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2009-08-09T20:00:00Z

That plan is HR 676, which would save more than $400 billion a year by ending the plutocratic market-gaiming of the pharmaceuitcals and private health ...

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2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

By SMW Staff, posted August 9, 2009 11:59 am I urge you to co-sponsor HR 676, the â€œMedicare For Allâ€* Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

By SMW Staff, posted August 9, 2009 11:59 am I urge you to co-sponsor HR 676, the â€œMedicare For Allâ€* Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

By SMW Staff, posted August 9, 2009 11:59 am I urge you to co-sponsor HR 676, the â€œMedicare For Allâ€* Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

By SMW Staff, posted August 9, 2009 11:59 am I urge you to co-sponsor HR 676, the â€œMedicare For Allâ€* Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

By SMW Staff, posted August 9, 2009 11:59 am I urge you to co-sponsor HR 676, the â€œMedicare For Allâ€* Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

By SMW Staff, posted August 9, 2009 11:59 am I urge you to co-sponsor HR 676, the â€œMedicare For Allâ€* Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers. ...

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Single-payer plan would not cost more

2009-08-08T20:00:00Z

Insurance and pharmaceutical corporations are using their wealth to block the most cost-effective health insurance system -- HR 676. ...

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2009-08-05T20:00:00Z

by Letters to the Editor The US House leadership has agreed to hold a historic first vote on a single-payer public health insurance bill, HR 676. ...

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2009-08-05T20:00:00Z

by Letters to the Editor The US House leadership has agreed to hold a historic first vote on a single-payer public health insurance bill, HR 676. ...

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How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have ...

2009-08-05T20:00:00Z

... D-Calif., proposal for a single-payer system (one that closely mirrors John Conyers', D-MICH., HR 676, which has 85 co-sponsors in the House). ...

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Do it now: A plan for universal health care

2009-08-05T20:00:00Z

There are certainly a lot of questions and roadblocks thrown in front of HR 3200 and HR 676. (See â€œDo it right now,â€* July 31 Missourian. ...

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Why you can't sit out the health care fight

2009-08-05T20:00:00Z

During the Q & A point on the agenda, Coyle was asked, â€œDo we support HR 3200, the Democratic health care bill in the House, or do we support HR 676, ...

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The Fight to Keep Single-Payer Healthcare Alive

2009-08-04T20:00:00Z

Kucinich believes that the time for HR 676 is coming and that the movement has to build nationally and state by state. Kucinich told the 300-plus crowd, ...

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Hundreds hear Kucinich at Illinois Healthcare Speak Out

2009-08-04T20:00:00Z

John Conyers, D-Mich., in sponsoring HR 676, a House bill that would essentially create improved Medicare for all. He, along with Conyers, ...

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The Democrats' Single-Payer Razzle-Dazzle

2009-08-04T20:00:00Z

If the 85 House Democrats who pledged their support for HR 676 (John Conyer's single-payer healthcare bill) remain firm and declare they will not support ...

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UnitedHealth seeks a major role in overhauled health care system

2009-08-04T20:00:00Z

HR 676 would phase out private insurance (except for electives like plastic surgery to become more pretty) over 10 years so that there would be no shock to ...

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About those health care protesters

2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

... over the past several years, "one thing is perfectly predictable: The Q&A session will be dominated by single-payer activists asking about HR 676. ...

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Liberals' Single-Payer System to Get Floor Vote

2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

Well, if you read the bill HR 676 (AKA Medicare for ALL) there are provisions within it that would set a given service fee, (which in a given region ...

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2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

AMY GOODMAN: You've been a longtime supporter, Congressman Waxman, of HR 676, of the single-payer bill, but you withdrew that support. Why? REP. ...

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2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

Frank is referring to his support for HR 676, The United States National Health Care Act, which has 85 congressional co-sponsors. ...

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Battling for Single-Payer Healthcare

2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

Kucinich believes that the time for HR 676 is coming and that the movement has to build nationally and state by state. Kucinich told the 300-plus crowd, ...

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Don't wait to reform health care

2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

Whether you desire HR 3200, public option plan, or HR 676, single-payer plan, make your desires known to senators and representatives. ...

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Speaking up for single-payer in DC

2009-08-03T20:00:00Z

Many demonstrators held signs in support of Conyers' single-payer bill, HR 676, and the crowd joined in singing "Happy Birthday" to Medicare. ...

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2009-08-02T20:00:00Z